... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 55) Summer 2008 Last | Contents | Next Issue 55 Philip Agee, the KGB and us Philip Agee died in January this year. Reading the obituaries I came across the allegations that he had gone to the KGB with his information about the CIA, something he had always denied. There is this section from the memoir of senior KGB officer Oleg Kalugin, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West: 'In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans.......The Cubans' ardour also ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 6) November 1984 Last | Contents | Next Issue 6 Who's afraid of the KGB?As a number of people have pointed out, in the first 5 Lobsters - something like 100,000 words - there has been hardly a mention of the Soviet and Soviet satellite intelligence activities. There are reasons. No-one has offered us anything on this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What little there is in the British press is almost exclusively the routine nonsense of espionage - expulsions and counter expulsions. The recent great brouhaha about Oleg Bitov ...

... .2 A deeper understanding of Oswald's role in Japan, however, has been long distorted by the 1978 publication of Edward Jay Epstein's book Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald 3 in which Epstein tries to prove that Oswald fell victim to an elaborate Soviet intelligence 'honey trap' while in Japan that led him to spy for the KGB. Shortly after Legend appeared in print, however, investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) interviewed some of Epstein's purported sources. The interviews (many now available on the Mary Ferrell Foundation website) show that Epstein concocted a bogus recreation of Oswald's time in 1 For Oswald's itinerary in Japan, the Philippines, and ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last | Contents | Next Issue 52 In camera injustice Michael John Smith Those who remember my case will be aware that in 1992/93 I was portrayed as a major KGB spy, featuring on the front pages of several national newspapers. My name later appeared in The Mitrokhin Archive, as did Melita Norwood the 'Granny Spy' but unlike her I have been largely ignored by those commentating on the history of espionage in the UK. In this article, I would like to familiarise Lobster readers with some key elements of my case, and to raise questions about the ...

... noise, and I wasn't paying too much attention; I didn't take notes - not even to write down his name. In his search for information on .. .. whatever it was, this journalist had been to see Mr G. Upon learning that the journalist was also going to ring me, Mr G told him that the KGB were big fans of Lobster. Told this, I laughed. Later I thought, 'How does Mr G know this? ' Mr G defected in 1985, around the time of Lobster 6 , and it seems very unlikely to me that the KGB would have come across something as piffling as the then Lobster. I'm flattered that Mr ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last | Contents | Next Issue 33 The KGB Lawsuits Brian Crozier Foreword by Sir James Goldsmith The Claridge Press, London, 1995, 12.95 One of the odd things about the James Goldsmith Referendum Party gambit in the recent election is the way the mass media collectively chose not to refer back to the last great Goldsmith campaign - his hunt for the Red Menace in the late 1970s.(1 ) Then as now Goldsmith saw himself as the saviour of the nation and put his money where his mouth was.(2 ) He funded some of Brian Crozier's operations, ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 5) August 1984 Last | Contents | Next Issue 5 Golitsyn One of the recurring sub-themes of the literature on intelligence systems in the West in the past decade has been the status of the claims made by KGB defector Golitsyn. Until recently all the book-reading public knew about Golitsyn was (a ) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b ) made a series of quite bizarre sounding claims to the effect that the divisions within the Communist bloc were a device to mislead the capitalist states in the West; and (c ) that the KGB had ...

... this is very interesting and probably important. There are a lot of striking leads in here, none of which are good news for the police or MI5; so it's not too surprising that he has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the only British citizen to act as a KGB agent and return to tell the tale. Symonds was a detective in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the time when the Metropolitan Police was seriously corrupt in places, and, on his account, riddled with Freemasonry.1 Bits of the Met joined forces with the then illegal porn industry, regulating it essentially: ...

... .uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last | Contents | Next Issue 40 The Citizen Smith case or the spy who came in from Oporto Frederico Duarte Carvalho Why is a Portuguese journalist writing a book about an almost unknown British spy? Recently I had to answer to this same question from Igor Prelin, my favourite ex-KGB officer whom I first meet in Cannes, France, during the Television Market Fair of April 1994. After I met Igor Prelin in Cannes, I travelled to Moscow the following year and conducted a few interviews with other ex-KGB officers. We only talked about stories with Portuguese interest. No interest in a story about a British ...

... Who Owns Agca?The Time of The Assassins: The Inside Story of the Plot to Kill the Pope Claire Sterling, Angus and Robertson, London 1984 The Plot to Kill the Pope Paul B. Henze, Croom Helm, London 1984 These two books cover the same ground, more or less, and have the same thesis: the KGB used the Bulgarians, who used Agca to shoot the Pope. Sterling's is much the more impressive of them, better documented, more detailed and just generally more convincing. Henze's is thin, padded out with barely relevant material (80 pages on previous Soviet calumnies, for example). Maybe Sterling just had more time - Henze published ...